McCain Repeats Palin's Attack On Fruit Fly Research
John McCain reached back into the presidential campaign on Wednesday to pull out a scientific critique that had first been made by his running mate, A...
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Obama To Ban Earmarks From Stimulus Bill
MSNBC | Domenico Montanaro | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
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On his second day in Washington, President-elect Obama met with his budget team and promised no earmarks will be in the stimulus plan. "We are goin...
Obama Stimulus Won't Include Earmarks, Biden Says
Wall Street Journal | JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 12.24.2008 | Business
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Vice President-elect Joe Biden released new details on the incoming administration's planned stimulus package, saying 85% of the three million jobs to...
Obama Drug Czar Pick Tied to Christian Rehab Linked to Contributor Charged with $3.5 Billion Fraud (Updated)
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics
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Ramstad's support for Teen Challenge shows a disregard for evidence-based treatment and either a willingness to abandon his beliefs about treating addiction or a failure to investigate what kinds of programs he funds.
Lipstick on Doggerel
Evan Eisenberg | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
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I wrote this bit of doggerel a while ago but only just got around to making it hyperdoggerel by equipping the stanza numbers with links. (Warning: VI...
Sarah Palin: "Ya Think This Six-Figure Wardrobe Makes Me Look Phat?"
Linda Hansen | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home
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Talk about your earmarks, your pork barrel spending! Hardworking Republicans donated money because they believed McCain's vaunted judgment only to find Palin and family wearing a six-figure chunk of their change.
The Candy Store Congress
Laura MacCleery and Matthew R. Welch | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business
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It is no coincidence that those who benefit from earmarks tend to support lawmakers who are in the best position, by virtue of their status or committee positions, to dole them out.
McConnell Promises More Pork Despite McCain Threats
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics
Unless you have been residing under a rock this past year, you know that one of John McCain's signature platform pieces is his pledge to eliminate ear...
Top 10 Lies, Non-truths, Half-truths, Stretches, Reaches and Fibs Proving McCain Will Say Anything to Be President
Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
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This is a compilation of statements and allegations made by McCain or campaign surrogates that have been refuted, supported by the proof that they are mostly, partially, or completely false.
Unearthed: The News Without the Chaff
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 10.17.2008 | Media
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This week: 2008 becomes the bloodiest year of the war in Afghanistan; Iraq: war for oil confirmed; ABC refuses climate protection ad; National debt clock runs out of digits; Hidden earmarks.
Sex, Drugs and Earmarks: Virgil Goode makes his party proud
Michael Rogers | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics
Virgil Goode Anti-gay Congressman "How does Virgil Goode (R-VA) square his condemnation of gay and lesbian Americans while helping to make Eden's Cur...
Plans Versus Platitudes
Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
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Government reform issues have emerged as unlikely hotspots in this presidential campaign. Earmarks, the influence of lobbyists, governmental transpare...
A Thought from the 1st Debate: Loopholes vs. Earmarks
Paul Abrams | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
McCain has voted for loads of tax loopholes during his 26 years in the Senate. Why loopholes are morally superior to earmarks escapes me.
Creating Candidate Palin: How McCain Spun This One A Turn Too Far
Les Gara | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics
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Palin's nomination has created unusual common ground for Alaskans. Whether we support her or not, we've been furrowing our eyebrows a lot lately as we watch the McCain campaign re-write Alaska history.
McCain: I'll Veto Earmarks, But I Won't Vote Against Them
HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics
Just two days after again promising the nation that he would veto every single spending bill with earmarks to cross his desk, John McCain said on Sund...
Bear DNA and John McCain's Silly Science
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
We've all heard John McCain's tired joke about the pork barrell spending on bear DNA (a paterniy issue or a criminal one -- so funny the first dozen t...
John McCain: Unfit for the Presidency
Paul Jenkins | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics
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If we agree, as most of us do outside of the far-right abortion-obsessed axis, that Palin is unfit to serve as president, then McCain, the man solely responsible for giving her that opportunity, is unfit too. It's that simple.
McCain Pulls Out the Heartstrings: Pity He Didn't Use a Violin Instead of a Kazoo
Michael Russnow | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
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I felt bad for Obama, who treated McCain with a level of respect, even as McCain often had a frozen condescending grin while the Democrat spoke.
'08 earmarks
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 09.17.2008 | Politics
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First posted at WashingtonTimes.com at 3:45 p.m. Taxpayers for Common Sense is out with an analysis of earmark requests in the 2009 Defense Authoriza...
Sarah Palin: Give the Money Back
Cenk Uygur | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics
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If Sarah Palin is going to claim how much she dislikes earmarks -- let her prove it. Why doesn't she give back the $73 million set aside for this useless Bridge to Nowhere project?
Alaska's Wild Kingdom Of Earmarks Documented (VIDEO)
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics
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This little bit of viral videography contains perhaps one too many pop-cultural references than are actually necessary, but it gets its point across e...
Palin's Earmarks-Per-Day Total Out Higher Than Obama
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
Hate to be, you know, comparing the top of one ticket with the number two spot on the other ticket, but since one of the cases being put forth in Sara...
McCain Tacitly Admits Lies -- Then Distorts Facts
Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
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So, all the bluster last week that anyone called Sarah Palin a "pig" wasn't really based in truth, McCain admits. Yet, he never stopped his campaign from lying.
McCain Wrong About Palin's Record On Earmarks
Los Angeles Times | Tom Hamburger and Maeve Reston, | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
John McCain got it wrong Friday when he asserted that his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, had not requested any earmarks, the spending directiv...
Fact Check: McCain misstates Palin earmarks record
AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — John McCain continued to laud his running mate, Sarah Palin, as a budget cutter on Friday, this time erroneously asserting that as ...
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